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METRO DATELINES; Bishop Is Named For Metuchen

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December 18, 1986, Page 00002 The New York Times Archives

Pope John Paul II has named the Rev. Edward T. Hughes, the Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, as the next spiritual leader for 500,000 Roman Catholics in the four-county Diocese of Metuchen.

Auxiliary Bishop Hughes, 67, replaces Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark who served as Bishop of Metuchen until June.

Auxiliary Bishop Hughes is to be installed as the new bishop in late January or early February, said William Carr, a spokesman for the diocese, which comprises Middlesex, Somerset, Warren and Hunterdon Counties.

A native of Lansdowne, Pa., Auxiliary Bishop Hughes was ordained in 1947 and has spent most of his priesthood in the Philadelphia area. He became Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia in 1976.

The position of Bishop of Metuchen has been vacant since June 3, when Bishop McCarrick became the Archbishop of Newark, the nation's seventh-largest archdiocese with 1.3 million people and an annual budget of $360 million.

A version of this article appears in print on December 18, 1986, on Page B00002 of the National edition with the headline: METRO DATELINES; Bishop Is Named For Metuchen. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe